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Page 55
... kind of dependence on the physician , and do so irrespective of their ideology and the nosology these beliefs engender.64 ( Of course , capitalism has proved that it can do so at a much higher social cost.65 ) Everywhere in the mid ...
... kind of dependence on the physician , and do so irrespective of their ideology and the nosology these beliefs engender.64 ( Of course , capitalism has proved that it can do so at a much higher social cost.65 ) Everywhere in the mid ...
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... kind . It compares 22 countries , noting significant differences in drug - consumption patterns but enormous difficulties in establishing precise comparisons . Therapeutic categories , cost evaluations , and measurements for ...
... kind . It compares 22 countries , noting significant differences in drug - consumption patterns but enormous difficulties in establishing precise comparisons . Therapeutic categories , cost evaluations , and measurements for ...
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... kind of deviance with even minimal common characteristics252 is a hazardous undertaking . The contemporary assignation of sick - roles is of a unique kind . It developed not much more than a generation before Henderson and Parsons ...
... kind of deviance with even minimal common characteristics252 is a hazardous undertaking . The contemporary assignation of sick - roles is of a unique kind . It developed not much more than a generation before Henderson and Parsons ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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